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01/14/2025

Happy New Year!
Welcome to SOCKS: The Art of Care and Repair by Celia Pym 🧦

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Focusing on sustainability in fashion and our lives, SOCKS: The Art Of Care And Repair celebrates the everyday act of mending through darning. Featuring a colourful installation of 488 socks, each stitched and darned by Southwark’s Surrey Square Primary School using industry ‘warehouse’ waste socks during a series of 26 workshops facilitated by Pym in early 2024.

In addition, we’re excited to present a newly commissioned artwork ‘Family and Friends Mended Socks’, featuring a selection of socks belonging to Celia’s friends and family that she has carefully mended in contrasting colours to suit the individual’s personality – mended visibly, to record patterns of wear and tear.

Pym’s commission has transformed the gallery into a creative workshop space, with mending materials and socks to inspire you to learn the art of darning. Bring your own socks to the gallery to repair during drop in guided darning sessions throughout the exhibition period, or learn from the step-by-step video tutorials in the exhibition space to try your hand at darning, mending and stitching.

6 Dec - 9 March 2025

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07/17/2024

Happy Wednesday!☀️
Sharing a new monthly mending workshop with 🪡🏆🚀
July is full, but follow the links to reserve a space for August ✨and have fun! 🎡
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Sustainable Sewing Series: Japanese Sashiko and Boro Stitching starts this Saturday.

Registration is full this week but the next one will be August 24th, 10:30am-12:30pm with registration opening August 10th at 10:30am.

Come learn, create, mend and reuse materials together.

Photo credit: Brooklyn Refinery

06/14/2024

Congratulations Pia on your certification in Craft Psychology!
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🔗Please follow the links to see more and read the caption (translated from Danish) below ⤵️
Pia's original version can be found in the comments if you want to brush up on your Danish.
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Hello, Welcome to you who have landed here at
Here I want to share my passion for recycling materials, fabric scraps, embroidery yarn, worn clothes.

🙏🏻 31 May 2024 I am Certified in Craft psychology, with Anne Kirketerp.
My goal is to reach a sustainable wardrobe. Either with the clothes I already have, but also what I find recycled and fall in love with.
⏰ With time, needle thread 🪡 and patience it can be transformed into new favourites.
In 2022, I was captivated by naturally dyeing textiles with plants such as indigo and food scraps from vegetables such as avocado and onion skins. In this way, old textiles and clothes can get a whole new life. Look in my profile.
In 2023 I was allowed to have a small part of a useful garden, to grow colorful flowers. My very own mini plant color garden.
A very big source of inspiration is the Japanese Boro and Sashiko hand sewing techniques. 👖👘
Hand sewing is fantastically satisfying I use those techniques in my clothes, in mending, in textiles and upcycle textiles for cases. You can also come to workshops with me.
My big favorite is this old worn-out work jacket, which may have been stuck in a machine and was torn to pieces around the shoulder and got a lot of oil stains.
I am so happy with the result. 🙌🏻
What do you think?

During 2024 you can come to sewing and upcycling workshops. Choose between free workshops and paid sewing workshops, with different practitioners.
Follow along here and in story where I will post when there are workshops. 👉🏻 Click on the little bell 🔔 at the top right of my profile. Then you will only be notified when there is news from me
I'm really glad you want to follow along

Love
Pia

👉🏻 follow the story and look at Linktree for 👈🏻

05/27/2024

Here is a great reason to be happy:
The Greenpoint Tool Library!
🛠️🪛🪚🧰
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Did you know we have a new Tool Library at Greenpoint Library?

Let's work together to repair our possessions and make our own home improvements, promoting sustainability and self-sufficiency.

Find a link to our tool catalog and lending policies in bio.

04/05/2024

Be human. Feel your feelings. Let them inspire change. Remember mending is really just stabbing with beautiful results 🔪🪡
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I got pi**ed off yesterday and did this to stab something. (Well honestly, there was a hole in my jacket that needed patching too) There are many f**k its in the world. This time my f**k it is toxic positivity. Relates strongly to finnish toxic positivity gurus tweet I accidentally saw yesterday.

If you have difficult emotions when facing challenges, abuse, inequality or injustice in life, that's just normal human experience. If you feel anxious about environmental issues going on at the moment, that's completely normal too. You are a member of human species living in a world where you have to face large-scale existential threats unfolding and see how other living species are threatened by your own species' actions. It would be more odd not to feel any dark emotions at all. Don't believe anyone who makes you feel like you are in any way inferior/less enlightened for experiencing those emotions. If you feel someone is forcing you to stay silent with your emotions, just run away from that person/group. Or at least don't buy hers/his/theirs well-priced online class for getting rid of these emotions. Take your money elsewhere.

If you want to read something that nourishes hope and comforts you read Miriam Greenspans Healing through the Dark Emotions - The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair. She writes so beautifully about those difficult emotions and explains why we should face them instead of denying them.

What's your f**k it for today?

**kit ̈ristötunteet ̈kyväkorjaus ̈kyväpaikkaus ̈sityötekniikka2021

03/15/2024

The remarkable Jenny Cooper is mending the Brooklyn Library!🪡🏆 Tomorrow! ☀️
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And please read the original caption below ⬇️ thank you
Join me and alot of incredible minds at Brooklyn Public Library for a night of philosophy Out of Darkness. They will be thinking, I will be sewing. Bring your favorite hole-y garments and we will help you/teach you how to mend them and bring them forward into the next decade 🫶🪡🧵

03/09/2024

Alaska artist and mender Amy Meissner's Anchorage Museum project from start to finish...please take a moment to read her inspiring words about mending in the original caption below ⬇️ you'll be glad you did 🪡🏆
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Me, mending clothing, next to the super rad installation of “Mother Thought of Everything,” part of the current exhibition “How to Survive.”

I’ll be wrapping up the repair work for members of the museum staff this week in my studio, and will post all of the work here over the next few weeks. Many of you have reached out because you’ve learned a new technique, a new skill, a new concept. Thank you for your kindness.✨

And why wouldn’t we repair and maintain our things? Russell Belk wrote that our possessions are extensions of ourselves. It’s partly why, when they become damaged, the disappointment is felt deeply. In this way, caring for another person’s garments is a way of caring for them. Even if these garments belong to strangers. Eventually, our “possessions” might belong to strangers from a generation we have yet to meet….rendering them temporary possessions after all. I like to think evidence of this repair and maintenance will show the future we gave a damn.

📸 Leroy, Anchorage Museum

03/02/2024

Coming next Monday March 4🪡🧵✂️
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DARN IT the 1 year Anniversary Edition!
Come CELEBRATE 🎉 with us.
BYOB and a snack to share while mending.
March 4th at 5pm.
Ticket link in bio martinacox 🪡
Co-hosted

03/01/2024

Welcome MendMarch 2024 Edition💫Everything you need to know ✂️🧵🪡
🔄Reposted with thanks to Kate
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It is (neeeeearly) March!
MendMarch is a party where we share daily clothes fixes via hashtag, and you are warmly invited. Remember, this is the 7th and FINAL one thanks to M*ta f*ckery. This makes it a more challenging challenge, but here are some workarounds. More encouragement coming. I'll be posting the day BEFORE, so first one tomorrow, and that will contain the tag of the day—swipe for all the first week’s. Here are tips for playing along and finding each other

1. Mend to the prompt of the day: twist it to your liking. Silly is good!
2. Post using AND today's tag
3. Save the prompts & tags. Also found here in “highlights"
4. Follow each other. I will follow every consistent mendmarcher
5. LIKE every MendMarch post you see! Make mending visible
6. Hit the bell —get an alert
7. Comment, share, spread the mend. More the merrier
8. Tag me! –your post should appear in my profile (my settings are ‘everyone’)
9. Make recap posts of your fave mends. Share the love
10. If you get lost gather here in the comments. Tell me & each other how it’s going
& HAVE FUN!
Most people do not seem to have the ability to change hashtag feed to 'past week' but if you do, then hoorah! Otherwise we are limited to the "top" 28 posts Why 28? No effin idea. But let's microtag our little brains out and get as many posts through the censors as possible. Full list of daily tags in Story and Highlights (you can guess them tbh), and this week's too. See you in MARCH! ###

02/25/2024

Happy Sunday! ☀️
VINTAGE SEWING MACHINES: A PERSONAL OPINION
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The time has come to rationalise our sewing machine collection. After a couple of years of working on VSMs, we’ve come to understand where we want to direct our limited energy. Here is our very biased review of vintage sewing machines.

OLD SINGERS: we seek out domestic straight stitchers only, with a round bobbin. 201s, 15s, 66s, 99s. Most can be fixed/restored and converted to handcrank or motor, many are stunningly beautiful. Almost all sew well when repaired. Vibrating shuttle machines are fascinating but not for us (too hard to get parts). Same with all the early multi stitch Singers. Many people love them, but I find them frustrating.

BERNINAS: almost always worth fixing. They can sew like a dream once the capacitor issue has been dealt with.

ELNAS: older models are fun-we’ve tinkered with a Grasshopper and a Lotus. The Star series have a mechanism as smooth as butter when it works well, but their extension tables are built into the carry case and tend to get lost. Modern Elnas don’t inspire me.

NECCHIS: magnificent machines with tightly engineered components means they have to be used regularly or they could seize up. Too heavy for my everyday use. Basically a Ferrari in sewing machine terms.

HUSQVARNAS: I have tried desperately to love these and we’ve restored three but passed them all on. The sound of their motors doesn’t spark joy for me. As Pete pointed out, they’re best known for making chainsaws.😆

JANOMES: their Memory Craft machines from the 90s are brilliant if the screen hasn’t failed, as are their Decor/Excel series. Great for beginners, we’ve fixed and passed on dozens, and we take them to workshops. Their old overlockers are great too! Not so sure about their newer model sewing machines.

PFAFFS: run away! Very complicated.

PINNOCKS: hit & miss, only a few were really made here, most were rebadged models. Same for brands like ST JAMES, PRINCESS, NEW CENTURY etc.

BROTHERS: we’ve never come across a vintage one!

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